Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in autofs affect Power Hardware Management Console (CVE-2014-8169)

Summary

autofs is used by Power Hardware Management Console (HMC). HMC has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-8169**
DESCRIPTION:** Red Hat autofs could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error when an interpreted language is used by a program map. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using USER and HOME environment variables to specify the interpreter load path and gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101695 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Products and Versions

Power HMC V8.1.0.0
Power HMC V8.2.0.0
Power HMC V8.3.0.0
Power HMC V8.4.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central

Product

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VRMF

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APAR

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Remediation/Fix

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Power HMC

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V8.8.1.0 SP2

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MB03967

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Apply eFix MH01572

Power HMC

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V8.8.2.0 SP2

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MB03968

|

Apply eFix MH01573

Power HMC

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V8.8.3.0 SP1

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MB03969

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Apply eFix MH01574

Power HMC

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V8.8.4.0

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MH01559

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Apply eFix MH01560

Workarounds and Mitigations

None